SXP releases HampusDB, the worlds first Open Source Hybrid Database

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

SXP releases HampusDB, the worlds first Open Source Hybrid Database

Singapore, 13-July 2006,

After several years as a proprietary database, HampusDB is now  
released as an Open Source product, free and available for download  
at http://www.hampusdb.org.

HampusDB is a flexible and efficient hybrid database, a mixture of a  
filesystem and a database.
The aim is to fill the gap when storing data in a relational database  
is to rigid and storing
data in textfiles is too cumbersome. A typical example would be XML,  
configuration or heirarchical data.


Availablility
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HampusDB It comes with a wide range of command line utilities for  
manipulating and extracting data.
It's designed for both embedded, desktop and server systems. It  
currently runs on Linux and has
interfaces to C, C++, Java and Perl.


Key Features
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     * Scalable to terabytes of data, billions of records
     * Locking using multiple readers single writers
     * Comes with client-server for multiple applications or direct  
file access API
     * Zero administartion
     * Uses BerkeleyDB for underlying storage (db185, db3, db4)
     * Small code footprint
     * Source code availability
     * Simple yet powerful C-API with wrappers to Java and Perl
     * Wide variety of command line applications
     * Works well with other UNIX command line applications
     * Supports regular expression and globbing to query data
     * Regression test suite and example source included
     * Features can be added and removed using autoconf


System Requirements
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HampusDB is developed on Linux. It comes with binary distribution for  
RedHat Enterprice Linux
or source release for other distributions and plattforms.


License and Pricing:
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Free and licensed under GNU Lesser Public Licence.



About SXP
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SXP is an Information Technology company specialized in development  
of novel software concepts.
For more information about SXP, visit our Web site at http://www.sxp.se.


Contact
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Hampus Soderstrom
http://www.hampusdb.org
hampus@sxp.se
+65 934 22068